According to the latest Eurostat statistics, only 23.6% of the households in the EU have children with up to 49.8% of the families having only one child. 37.6% of the families had 2 children and only 12.6% had three children or more.
The countries with the highest share of households with children are Slovakia with 35.6%, Ireland with 31% and Cyprus with 28.6%. The countries with the lowest share of households with children are Finland with 18%, Lithuania with 19.6% and Germany with 20.1%.
Malta is registered just above the EU average at around 24.5%.
All of the countries in the EU except for the Netherlands have a majority of families with just one child.
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